Pan--1st Draft

[bairnsidhe]

 

Pan is for Panic

 

When nobody knows

How to pin you down

And so they trip over

Themselves instead.

 

Pan is for Pantheon

 

The long long list of

Virtues and vices

Deified into orderly lists

Of people you might want.

 

Pan is for Pandemic

 

Everywhere and all at once

Things they overlook are

Now growing strong and

They are outnumbered.

 

Pan is for Pandemonium

 

Chaos’s favored child

The heart and soul of a storm

Riotous rout, a tumultuous

Outpouring of songs

 

Pan is for Pan

 

The great goat-horned god

Wildling of wild woods

Companion of nymph and satyr

Sexual being unbound

 

By restriction of rule of law

A rustic ruler of his own

Nature and nurture.

Battle blooded with gods

 

Child of trickster Hermes,

Fearsome to small minds

His greatest trick echoes

Across the sea at Paxi

 

Pan has never yet died,

He lives in the hearts of

His many soul-kin, lovers

Who seek where they find.

 

Pan is for All

Comments

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Oh heck no. Those two can stay in prose, dammit. Life-mate adds Bacchus to the list of crazy deities that will make my poetry complex.<<

LOL yes.

>>Yeah, that's about where I am right now. I like poetry, but some of the underlying things are tricky for me to pin down what's going on where.<<

You'll get the hang of it. Coming at it sideways, instead of directly on the poetry stuff, I found linguistics and psychology helpful too.

>>Yup, fitting the pattern here too. I'm looking up more structured forms right now, because it seems like a good way to use "training wheels" for things like meter and stress-unstressed syllables.<<

Exactly.

You might look at sonnet variations. Most are rhymed and metered, but a few aren't. When you start from a single base and then change one thing at a time, it's easier to see how that affects the results. Frex, two basic patterns are three quatrains and a couplet, or an octet and a sestet. The first is good for beginning-middle-end and moral, the second for point and counterpoint. So you can suit the structure to the storytelling. Then if you switch to a shorter one like the indriso, you can experiment with how it condenses ideas.

>> Thanks for all the encouragement! <<

You're welcome! I like poetry. If I encourage poets, there will be more and better poems.